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From Grampies' Poc Chuc Pursuit Winter 2021 by Steve Miller/Grampies

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Douglas Loten commented on Day 11: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Our other favourite activities in Izamal after a tour of the convent are a climb up the pyramid, a carriage ride around the town and lunch at Kinich!

2 years ago
Douglas Loten commented on a photo in Day 11: Chichen Itza to Izamal

My fav is a “marquesita con Nutella”

2 years ago
Douglas Loten commented on a photo in Day 11: Chichen Itza to Izamal

I think I’ve seen these at Hacienda Yaxcopoil… I’ll check

2 years ago
Douglas Loten commented on a photo in Day 11: Chichen Itza to Izamal

We typically stop here for a beverage when we visit from Uaymitun!

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

It sounds like loosely for a while we will be in the same region. We fly to Frankfurt mid April, go to Leipzig, and head down the Elbe to Cuxhaven, then up the Weser. Watch for where we are at in the new blog once it gets put up. Will you blog your trip?

2 years ago
Ellen Lee commented on Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

Good to see Dodie is healing well. Great minds think alike. I am heading to Frankfurt June 28 for 3 months. I am taking my electric BF & gear & will leave in Hammelburg so no return, nice, have a cousin who has offered to keep at her house. I will head up to Berlin, stay north into Netherlands and come back south, no planned route….

2 years ago
Douglas Loten commented on a photo in Day 9: Valladolid to Ek Balam (and back)

I love marquesitas!

2 years ago
Douglas Loten commented on a photo in Day 7: Tulum to Coba

Sorry, Steve, but I’ve never had any luck with Poc Chuc! Now, salbutes… yumm!

2 years ago
Douglas Loten commented on Day 4: Cancun to Playa del Carmen

Perhaps it’s a Yucatán vs Quintana Roo thing… or maybe just a Cancún and Playa thing, but 99% of the people in Mérida, Progreso, Chicxulub or anywhere along the beach all wear masks. The exceptions are the Snow birds or the Boat People?

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by MARIEANNE ARATA on Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

Thanks Marieanne, it's so good to hear from you! Dodie is not dancing at Mulate's yet, but she gleefully told her doctor that she cycled all of 6 km yesterday! She is pushing for an early departure for 4000 km around Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Czech.

2 years ago
MARIEANNE ARATA commented on Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

So glad to see Dodie so well, that was quite a spill she took.

2 years ago
Mike Ayling commented on Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

Looks like an Omicron variant spike. We had a similar spike here in Victoria Oz two months ago.

Great news that Dodie is ready for the road again!

2 years ago
Ben Parke replied to a comment by Steve Miller/Grampies on a photo in Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

I grew up 45 minutes north of bemidji. That whole area is big on Paul Bunyan. When the only other thing you have of interest is lakes and trees, you have to embrace any folklore you can find. The town I grew up in, a burgeoning village of 312 (now much smaller, probably because we moved...) had one singular claim to fame: the largest bear ever shot in Minnesota was near this town. We had a giant carved wooden bear statue (chainsaw carved, of course). One night a gentleman, upon leaving the local bar, felt the urge to take his chainsaw to the wooden statue and said it off at the ankles. Front page news in the local paper, that was. I’m certain a velomobile would be at least equally exciting for the action-starved residents.

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Ben Parke on a photo in Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

Your reference to Bemidji caught my attention, since it's kind of a unique name. We passed through Minnesota in 2011 on our cross Canada cycle. Not that we think Minnesota is part of Canada, it was just easier to cycle! Anyway, according to us (https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/grampies/day-64-bagley-to-cass-lake-minnesota-covered-gazebo-with-picnic-tables/) Bemidji could be the birthplace of Paul Bunyan. Match that, Europe!

2 years ago
Ben Parke replied to a comment by Steve Miller/Grampies on a photo in Dodie Update - when is the next flight outta here?

I let myself get pretty stressed with the last overseas trip. Right now I’m planning to stay in Minnesota and do a velomobile tour around the northern half of the state. Minneapolis to Fergus Falls, on to Park Rapids, up to Bemidji, over to Virginia or Ely, down to Two Harbors, on to Duluth, and back to Minneapolis. It connects several lengthy rail trails. Not remotely as interesting as riding in Europe, but much simpler with covid and, since I’ll be doing it in my velomobile, it will not lack for interesting encounters. I’ve been mostly tracking events in Europe out of curiosity, and also because my heart is in Europe.

2 years ago